Ekrem İmamoğlu's jab at Erdoğan: 'If you give him everything, he will ruin this nation!'

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Urban Transformation Project in the Akşemsettin and Çırçır neighborhoods of the Eyüpsultan district.

Reacting to AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's rhetoric of 'No vote, no service,' İmamoğlu said, "If it were up to one person, he would gather everything under his own roof. They say service only comes if you give him everything. If you give him everything, he will ruin this nation! It is a good thing we are here. Let Istanbul be his, let the whole country be his! May God help him, what else can I say, may God help him! It is like mocking this nation. This nation may smile slightly, but it knows very well what to do when it goes to the ballot box."

Highlights from İmamoğlu's statements are as follows:

"They are also doing a fake version of urban transformation. This is important. Even though it might sound humorous, they are partially making our citizens experience this fake issue. You know very well who is doing it.

Real urban transformation makes people feel safe, peaceful, and happy. Fake urban transformation, on the other hand, makes people victims.

Istanbul has a very important problem like earthquakes. I must also say this; urban transformation, which should be one of the solutions to this problem, has turned into a problem in this city because of these friends.

If you do fake work and deceive people, if you turn Istanbul's visible seaside areas into piles of luxury housing in the name of urban transformation, if you cause a misfortune like Fikirtepe...

What they do in the name of urban transformation discourages people from urban transformation.

"THEY LEFT THE CITIZENS ALONE AND HELPLESS"

Earthquake taxes have been collected from this nation for years, and in the amount of billions of dollars. The citizens could not raise their voices. Despite everything, people who trusted their government and municipality suffered from this trust. They could not manage this trust. They left the citizens alone and helpless. They opened earthquake assembly areas to rent-seeking, effectively stabbing the citizens in the back.

"HE EXPRESSES IT WITHOUT BLUSHING"

They are still telling people the lie that 'we will build 650 thousand houses' while heading to the elections. He can really express it without blushing. The numerical value of 650 thousand; even if he paid no salaries, made no investments, and did not spend on subways or anything else, even if he spent all of this city's money for 5-6 years, he still could not do it.

In that respect, I am calling out to our citizens who want to distinguish between facts and lies; if they look at Tuzla, the truth can be seen with all its clarity. Let them look at the TOKİ project that was planned in 2019 and started in 2022. Right next to it, we completed and delivered our KİPTAŞ project. TOKİ still has sections that are at the rough construction stage.

(To Erdoğan) If it were up to one person, he would gather everything under his own roof. They say service only comes if you give him everything. If you give him everything, he will ruin this nation! It is a good thing we are here. Let Istanbul be his, let the whole country be his! May God help him, what else can I say, may God help him! It is like mocking this nation. This nation may smile slightly, but it knows very well what to do when it goes to the ballot box.

News Source: 12punto